Since starting in the profession I have worked on on off houses, initially in UK, as an architectural technician along side an architect/lecturer, in a career now spanning 42 years, 30 years post RIBA qualification. Having manually building road and building, and working with my late father a master carpenter, one has built up good technical knowledge, and still learning, from design and building Technologies to/for future structures, having now build a Code 5 eco Houses, and now developing a passive house, whilst research technology beyond this. Working on one off houses, has taken me from building in Wales, to international clients, refurbishing to work on London's first Super Mansion (£300 million plus) in London. One still enjoy the challenge of designing and building work on detached houses, as with new work plus extending individual houses, altering and re-planning existing, whatever the restrictions, every project gives us new challenges, don't like that word can't. With the environment the key concern, we are currently designing a new passive house for a client, on the borders of national parks, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty., listed or conservation areas. wdpk architects ltd